Television & radioInterviewElizabeth Perkins on luck, sexism and Big’s love scene: ‘It would not be acceptable today’Emine SanerThe star of hit films in the 80s and 90s has since moved into TV. She discusses life with 10 siblings, #MeToo and why she couldn’t ask for a better life
Veering from horror to joy and back again, Elizabeth Perkins is contemplating what it would be like if her adult children moved back home. Read More...
Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy/Guardian DesignDespite Thatcher and Reagan’s best efforts, there is and has always been such a thing as society. The question is not whether it exists, but what shape it must take in a post-pandemic world
by Jill LeporeIn March 2020, Boris Johnson, pale and exhausted, self-isolating in his flat on Downing Street, released a video of himself – that he had taken himself – reassuring Britons that they would get through the pandemic, together. Read More...
The ObserverRelationshipsInterviewThe real love story behind The Diving Bell and the ButterflyJanine Di GiovanniWhen stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby's book was turned into a Bafta-winning film, the world wept for his tragic on-screen wife. But why was his lover, Florence Ben Sadoun, airbrushed from the story? She tells Janine di Giovanni a different version of eventsWrapped up in several sweaters against the chill of a wintry day in Paris, Florence Ben Sadoun sits in a bohemian tea shop near the Luxembourg Gardens. Read More...